Temporary And Eternal

Tune: Melita

('Eternal Father, strong to save')

Psalm 103 v.11-17

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For as high as the heaven be

So great is the Lord's mercy, see

Towards them that do Him here fear

With reverence to Him draw near

And far as east is from west

He removed our sins, we confessed

 

Like fathers pity their children

He does remember out state then

That we are dust, mortal mankind

Yet in Him may salvation find

For He does know our frame, and He

Compassionate to us shall be

 

As for mankind, our days are as

Grass, as flowers of field, soon pass

Flourishes, and hen wind does blow

Over it, then place it not know

For it be gone, taken away

And so be mankind's little day

 

But the mercy of the Lord is

From everlasting, true is this

And unto everlasting on

They that fear Him, each daughter, son

His righteousness extends unto

Children's children, it fresh and new